Reaction to Night and Fog by Alain Resnais

After almost 80 years, each January 27^th people in Israel, Europe and North America remember the appalling genocide in history during the Second World War. In 1955 a French filmmaker Alain Resnais released a documentary “Night and Fog” about the concentration camps created by the Nazi Germany which killed prisoners of war, soviets and Jew citizens, or people who Nazis thought did not share his religious, social, and political ideas. The documentary is settled in an apparent peaceful camp in Auschwitz- Birkenau in Poland which entrance said, “Work will set you free”.  This phrase could imply that a severe and exhausted work was leading you soon free of life. The old and well structured buildings appeared to be hospitals, but they were labs where people suffered in merciless ways. There were also narrow rows of mattress made of hair of prisoners, as well as socks and rugs. Death bodies or parts of them were used to make soap after burned them. The SS agents and Germans were identified by their green clean uniforms. In contrast, hostages wore identical uniforms which bear identification numbers or some symbols that indicated if you were criminal or not. Most of the victims were submitted to the criminals, starvation, sterilization, punishment, etc. Overall each of them could see their own brother dying in gas chambers or dying slowly and painfully without unable to say nothing. Future generations should never forget the actions of “human beings” as an example of inhumanity, persecution, corruption, and discrimination against their own self. Therefore, new generations will be aware and prevent or protect any demonstration of genocide in future time. God help us to understand our own and recognize evil from good.